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title: Around the short masts they placed new mats as sails, inscribed with… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the short masts they placed new mats as sails, inscribed with strange and mysterious emblems. Who acts: masts. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 137

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Around the short masts they placed new mats as sails, inscribed with strange and mysterious emblems.

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**Who acts:** masts · **What happens:** place, inscribe · **To what, where:** new mats, short masts, sails

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:8:137
# text = Around the short masts they placed new mats as sails, inscribed with strange and mysterious emblems.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	emblems	emblem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | masts *= mast* | new mats |  | the short masts |  | as sails | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mat=Theme around mast=Destination |
| 2 | **inscribe** | participle |  | sails *not said here* |  |  |  | with strange emblems | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with emblem=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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